Stående ung mand holdende en kugle og en krabbe 1671 - 1738

Hendrik Krock created this drawing of a standing young man holding a sphere and a crab using chalk on paper. The figure dominates the composition, its verticality emphasized by the full-length depiction against the paper's rectangular format. Krock’s use of delicate lines and shading creates a soft, almost dreamlike texture. The figure emerges from the background, with light and shadow subtly defining the contours of the body and drapery. The textures—the smooth skin, the crinkled cloth, and the granular surface of the crab—are rendered with an attention to detail that invites close inspection. This drawing exists within a network of artistic and intellectual ideas. The sphere and crab, symbols rich with allegorical meaning, invite semiotic interpretation. Do they represent the celestial and the terrestrial, or perhaps something else entirely? Krock's work is a moment of aesthetic experience and intellectual inquiry.